Fed on track to hike rates in December

Ian Kernohan

4 November 2016

Overall this was a reasonably robust payrolls report, which should keep the US Federal Reserve on track to hike interest rates next month. The key figure, the three month moving average of employment growth, now stands at 175,000, with signs that falling unemployment is now feeding into stronger wage growth.

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